374Water releases white paper highlighting potential for AirSCWO tech

374Water released a comprehensive white paper highlighting the Company’s AirSCWO technology’s ability to destroy greater than99.999% of a recalcitrant chemical additive used in Lithium-ion batteries. The common battery additive, HQ-115, belongs to a group of PFAS, frequently referred to as forever chemicals, and poses risk to LiB operations which release these chemicals into the environment. 374Water believes the success of its AirSCWO system in effectively treating LiB waste demonstrates the efficacy of the technology for use in the LiB production and recycling industries to improve their sustainability and mitigate risks. Highlights: While Lithium-ion batteries are used globally as a key component of clean and sustainable energy infrastructure, electrified transportation, medical devices, and consumer goods, their production and recycling processes produce toxic waste. Existing LiB manufacturing and recycling waste management approaches have been shown to release persistent organic toxic pollutants, such as HQ-115, a bis-FASI PFAS, into the environment. 374Water demonstrated a new approach to treat HQ-115 wastewater using their AirSCWO system, which resulted in greater than99.999% waste destruction. Once commercialized, the adoption of 374Water’s AirSCWO system to destroy LiB waste could prevent the release of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” from over 20,000 kilotons of electric vehicle waste produced per year.